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Zimmy · Oct 31st, 2006, 7:30 PM

A P2P bandwidth sharing applcation will pretty much be a proxy. Proxies work like this, so would a p2p bw sharing app:

Request -> Proxy Host (p2p bw server) -> Requested Material

If the proxy was on a T3, and the server with the material being requested was on a T3, yet your friend in the phillipines was on 56k, it'd still work at 56k like this:

Requested Material --T3 Speeds--> Proxy --56k download (speed depending on load)--> User.

The only way you'd gain speed is if the server generating the request had a bigger load than the proxy, but still then, going through 2 hoops instead of 1, can slow down bigger files.

Oct 31st, 2006, 7:30 PM	#4
Zimmy Newbie Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	A P2P bandwidth sharing applcation will pretty much be a proxy. Proxies work like this, so would a p2p bw sharing app: Request -> Proxy Host (p2p bw server) -> Requested Material If the proxy was on a T3, and the server with the material being requested was on a T3, yet your friend in the phillipines was on 56k, it'd still work at 56k like this: Requested Material --T3 Speeds--> Proxy --56k download (speed depending on load)--> User. The only way you'd gain speed is if the server generating the request had a bigger load than the proxy, but still then, going through 2 hoops instead of 1, can slow down bigger files.